Tom Jones (1963)

[RBBrittain]

A few updates: First, a review on Amazon claims the original version will have the UA hexagon, while the director's cut will have the logos of The Samuel Goldwyn Company (who distributed that cut in 1989; those logos are on the MGM DVD I have, one of the few pre-Criterion discs at 1.66:1 OAR). I'll check it to be sure (just shipped from Target), but that sounds good.

Second, packaging pictures at Criterion Forum show that Criterion is licensing the film directly from its original UK producer Woodfall. Apparently the film's rights reverted to Woodfall sometime after MGM got them from buying TSGC (much like The Best Years of Our Lives, originally produced by Samuel Goldwyn Sr., now owned by a Goldwyn family trust). That suggests it won't be going back to MGM from Criterion, as Silence of the Lambs did before (and probably will again).

Finally, just in case no one mentioned it, the UK will see this restoration as part of the BFI boxset
Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema 1959-1965, due in April.